Hearing aid looms without

Sophia (8) has to wait two years for tonsil surgery

It usually only takes a few minutes to remove a child's tonsils.(Bild: satyrenko - stock.adobe.com)

Eight-year-old Sophia has been suffering from inflammation in her ear and throat for years. Without an ENT operation, she is threatened with a hearing aid. There is hope, but it is a long way off ...

A tonsillitis and middle ear infection every two to three months - young Sophia from Lower Austria's ordeal goes back to her early childhood. Now she has to hop into the swimming pool in summer with earplugs to avoid even more infections. "Sometimes she just sits there crying because she's in so much pain," says her great-grandfather Robert Pintz.